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[:eu]In Mathematics, ‘You Cannot Be Lied To’[:]
[:eu]For Sylvia Serfaty, mathematics is all about truth and beauty and building scientific and human connections.[:]
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[:eu]Experiment Reaffirms Quantum Weirdness[:]
[:eu]Physicists are closing the door on an intriguing loophole around the quantum phenomenon Einstein called “spooky action at a distance.”[:]
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[:eu]To Live Your Best Life, Do Mathematics[:]
[:eu]The ancient Greeks argued that the best life was filled with beauty, truth, justice, play and love. The mathematician Francis Su knows just where to find them.[:]
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[:eu]How Life (and Death) Spring From Disorder[:]
[:eu]Life was long thought to obey its own set of rules. But as simple systems show signs of lifelike behavior, scientists are arguing about whether this apparent complexity is all […]
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[:eu]Dividing Droplets Could Explain Life’s Origin[:]
[:eu]Researchers have discovered that simple “chemically active” droplets grow to the size of cells and spontaneously divide, suggesting they might have evolved into the first living cells.[:]
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[:eu]Graph Isomorphism Vanquished — Again[:]
[:eu]On January 4, László Babai, a professor at the University of Chicago, sent shock waves through the community by retracting a claim which, back in November 2015, researchers had hailed […]
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[:eu]Infant Brains Reveal How the Mind Gets Built[:]
[:eu]Is the brain a blank slate, or is it wired from birth to understand the world? An ambitious new study put infants into an MRI machine to reveal a neural […]
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[:eu]3-D Fractals Offer Clues to Complex Systems[:]
[:eu]By folding fractals into 3-D objects, a mathematical duo hopes to gain new insight into simple equations.[:]
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[:eu]Explorers Find Passage to Earth’s Dark Age[:]
[:eu]Geochemical signals from deep inside Earth are beginning to shed light on the planet’s first 50 million years, a formative period long viewed as inaccessible to science.[:]